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I just read that an article about a company "Digital Playground" filming their movie Pirates II in HD with the red. Apprently the original Pirates was shot in HD and was released with an R rating. Do you think porn using cameras like the red will help it enter the mainstream world?

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I just read that an article about a company "Digital Playground" filming their movie Pirates II in HD with the red. Apprently the original Pirates was shot in HD and was released with an R rating. Do you think porn using cameras like the red will help it enter the mainstream world?

 

Hi,

 

Red will enter the mainstream when it as reliable as the alternative options & has a more defined workflow. I don't think people who watch porn are bothered by the format, story or cinematography, so in answer to your question no.

 

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Hi,

 

Red will enter the mainstream when it as reliable as the alternative options & has a more defined workflow. I don't think people who watch porn are bothered by the format, story or cinematography, so in answer to your question no.

 

Stephen

 

Oh I disagree the main reason I don't watch porn is because I hear from other people that it's all shot on DV. If more of it was 35mm and lit by a Hollywood DOP, well then I'd watch it. :D

 

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Some things you don't WANT to see in that sharp of clarity.

 

Just like Panorama Blue, the only porno shot on 5-perf. 65mm; some things just shouldn't be projected 20- feet wide on the big screen like that ;)

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I just read that an article about a company "Digital Playground" filming their movie Pirates II in HD with the red. Apprently the original Pirates was shot in HD and was released with an R rating. Do you think porn using cameras like the red will help it enter the mainstream world?

I don't know about the camera itself, but the marketing campaign could surely be judged as an obscenity.

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I don't know about the camera itself, but the marketing campaign could surely be judged as an obscenity.

Hmmm ..... Given the amount of communication it has generated here and all over the net, perhaps it could be said to have "redeeming social importance"? ;-)

 

 

 

 

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I just read that an article about a company "Digital Playground" filming their movie Pirates II in HD with the red. Apprently the original Pirates was shot in HD and was released with an R rating. Do you think porn using cameras like the red will help it enter the mainstream world?

I started a discussion about this some time back, which you can check out here in a thread about sound and the RED

It was all a bit tongue-in-cheek, but some good discussion emerged!

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Oh I disagree the main reason I don't watch porn is because I hear from other people that it's all shot on DV. If more of it was 35mm and lit by a Hollywood DOP, well then I'd watch it. :D

 

R,

 

There are a few out there... ;)

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Y'all made me spit my coffee at the screen.

 

If the Red camera had to rely on pr0n to get itself out there and make people want to work with it, that's...pretty sad.

 

Haha, I hope that was from laughing so hard and not gagging in disgust, Annie. Hope you have a monitor screen!

 

Apparantly, Law & Order, on life support, switched to the Genesis over the Red too, so the reliability issues are apparantly enough of an issue for people to go with Genesis because of its better workmanship, despite lower resolution.

 

I guess this is Law & Order's last season too, then. The trend is that shows that switch to Genesis from 35mm get cancelled one year later more often than not. Why the hell did they move McCoy out of the Prosecutor's chair?!?! I always said the show would die if they got rid of McCoy. They didn't get rid of him, but they moved him from the job he did best and that everyone loved him for to a roll that is, frankly, boring.

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Y'all made me spit my coffee at the screen.

 

If the Red camera had to rely on pr0n to get itself out there and make people want to work with it, that's...pretty sad.

It won't be the first time Jannard was accused of naked ambition.

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There are a few out there... ;)

I've worked with a few old timers who got their start working in porn in the 70s, including the DP of "Behind the Green Door." Apparently there were a number of pornos shot on 35mm with Panavision cameras. Haven't seen these films but I hear the production values were quite high with sophisticated lighting on the story segments. Then for the dirty scenes they'd close the set except for one electric with a handheld "crotch light" and go to town. These guys lamented that their nice lighting never got seen properly because they were never allowed to supervise creation of the answer print. :blink:

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the porn industry has had a huge impact in technology over the years. Look at the internet, they are one of the major players in getting faster speeds and video streaming. I wouldn't really like to see a porno shot on Red, but if it helps the industry then so be it.

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The only way I want to 'see' porn is ABOLISHED! Not by the decree from any State or Government.. but by the collective consciousness of a people who understand the damage and degradation wrought by this vile 'industry'. Would you want YOUR daughter performing in this business??? Your son??? Not if you have half a brain in your head... so why is it ok (in your mind) for others to debase themselves in this manner?

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David what ever your feelings about it , iam sorry to say the US is and always has been the biggest producer of porn in the world . I have been told without that " Industry" ? the internet would not have developed as fast as it has .

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David what ever your feelings about it , iam sorry to say the US is and always has been the biggest producer of porn in the world . I have been told without that " Industry" ? the internet would not have developed as fast as it has .

 

I know.. a sad sad statement on the 'moral/ spiritual' state of many Americans. This is one of the drawbacks to living in a free Society.. but I will take this over living (say) under Sharia (sp?) Law any day!

 

If the absence of porn hindered the development of the internet.... well, that would have been a very small price to pay... in my opinion.

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This prob. should go to General as we are taking space on the Red link , i will be honest in the past i have shot porn on 35mm looked good ,paid well as were the "artists" they werent forced to do anything it was just a job no one was harmed and i am afraid you will have to admit there is a huge demand ,both men and women viewers .

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